Category Archives: music

The Return of Unwound

Posted on November 2, 2023 by Reverend

What was wound? Back in February I attended an Unwound show at the Wiltern in the inimitable Los Angeles. LA is a special city to me, given I spent some of my formative years living there and attending UCLA #4life. … Continue reading →

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Cults Go Outside

Posted on March 3, 2016 by Reverend

https://vimeo.com/26493844 I’ve been playing music with my kids on Thursday and Fridays afternoons when they enjoy half-days at school (you have to love Italy!). Today I decided to revisit the indie band Cults, which I first discovered back in the Summer … Continue reading →

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Blue Monday: the 12″ Floppy Disk

Posted on January 28, 2014 by Reverend

GNA Garcia sent me a link to this 30 minute documentary for Swedish National TV about New Order’s seminal dance classic “Blue Monday.” It’s a fascinating cultural history of the 12″ extended single in particular (the design of which is awesome), but also … Continue reading →

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Au Revoir After Hours

Posted on September 26, 2013 by Reverend

Pitch-perfect Scorsese homage in Au Revoir Simone’s wonderful new video http://t.co/Wcf22Meh4q via @dangermindsblog attn: @jimgroom — Ed Webb (@edwebb) September 27, 2013 Thanks to the above tweet by Ed Webb I got to see a brilliant swede of Martin Scorsese’s 1985 … Continue reading →

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The Smitten Love Song Compilation

Posted on August 24, 2011 by Reverend

While living in Los Angeles from 1990-1997 I was fortunate enough to see a ton of bands that flourished during the noise/post-punk/hardcore scene that was pretty popular up and down the West Coast. I was a major fan of Unwound … Continue reading →

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The ds106 99: #9 A new ds106radio show?

Posted on April 17, 2011 by Reverend

While looking for ripped vinyl to upload to ds106radio this weekend as Jason Toal and Grant Potter broadcasted there awesome adventures around Vancouver on Record Store Day 2011 I was trying to refresh ds106radio’s AutoDJ with some vinyl rips. I’m … Continue reading →

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Summer of Love: Unwound

Posted on June 13, 2010 by Reverend

I love Unwound. In fact, I love them so much I actually travelled to Seattle from NYC in 2002 to catch their penultimate gig at the NW Asian Art Theatre as soon as I heard they were breaking up. I … Continue reading →

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Summer of Love: Yacht Rock

Posted on June 6, 2010 by Reverend

A couple of years back Brian Lamb turned me on to what might be the funniest set of videos I’ve yet to see on the internet: a 12 episode Rockumentary titled Yacht Rock. It’s a brilliantly conceived spoof on the … Continue reading →

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Summer of Love: Don’t Dance her Down

Posted on June 6, 2010 by Reverend

I love The Fiery Furnaces “Don’t Dance Her Down” tune which I discovered via Brad Efford. Which in turn reminds me of how much I loved Brad’s Daily inTune posts, as well as his Play-List experiment on UMW Blogs. In … Continue reading →

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The opening band for the opening band

Posted on March 27, 2010 by Reverend

Yesterday evening was the best kind of time capsule, found myself requesting The Replacements during the Friday afternoon rock show at DTLT, and after here their “Alex Chilton” tune I found myself yearning for more. So, Friday evening became search … Continue reading →

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